At the Hi-Rez Expo in Atlanta Georgia, Hi-Rez Studios revealed the next game to join their free-to-play lineup. SMITE Rivals, is a Collectible Card Arena (CCA) game featuring gods from the popularMOBA SMITE. Coming to both mobile and PC devices, the one-on-one game is played in quick matches on a MOBA inspired 3-lane field.

Players will use cards to place units in the lanes while attempting to take the tower on the enemy side. Collecting and unlocking more cards in SMITE Rivals grants access to new units, strategies, and more. Any progression players make on any platform they log into will be saved across platforms, meaning you can continue from anywhere.

Speaking of the SMITE universe, Hi-Rez also announced the kick-off of the Closed Beta Test for its turn-based, 1v1 strategy game SMITE Tactics yesterday. As with other Hi-Rez betas, the Tactics CBT is launching alongside a Founder’s Pack that grants immediate access to the game in addition to 15 card packs, and exclusive icon, and a set of legendary cards featuring the Greek goddess, Enyo. As an added bonus, Founder’s Pack purchasers will also recieve an Enyo skin for Bellona in SMITE.

Finally, Hi-Rez also announced Paladins Season 1 changes. The game’s first official season kicks off after the Paladins Invitational — going on now. It should be noted that while Season 1 will be under way soon, Paladins is still in Open Beta and the developer will continue to add new champions and other content throughout.

To kick off the season, Hi-Rez will be adding a new castle art themed map set within a fairy tale castle and cathedral. This map will offer more corridor-style gameplay with additional verticality.

In honor of the current Invitational , Hi-Rez made a special loot pack available for 600 gems. You can check out the contents in the video below.

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4 Readers Commented

I think Hi-Rez is trying to make clones of popular games such as Overwatch(Paladins) Smite Tactics( Duelyst) and now Smite Rivals( Clash Royale) Okey i agree with Smite brand because Smite has a great success in MOBA genre but Hi-rez needs to be creative for new projects

Exactly as written, Paladins was in works and was released in cbt and obt waaaaay before overwatch. When Overwatch took the spotlight however Hi-Rez incorporated things Ow had already (EX:Sprays, skins.) LOOT BOXES WERE IN IT BEFORE! But yea hi-rez didn’t even clown Overwatch until recently.